Good Morning. It’s supposed to hit 79 today. It’s like 40 now. Heading into work. I woke up late which still gives me plenty of time, but I feel behind!

Not much going on tonight besides Ally has pom practice.
Matt has an ice cream social on Friday and Ally has a pom performance at the football game on Thursday. There’s a parent meeting, but I have to double-check the date. They started this monthly parent meeting thing at the elementary school last year. I try to go to them all, but last year, I missed one. The kids go and show their parents what is going on and they do a little presentation usually and it’s really nice.

Work and then driving to dance and then the theater parent meeting.
DD has decided not to do the drama this year, but she is going to do the musical and I generally help out with the snack bar at the performances. Tomorrow and Thursday we have Back to School Nights to attend.
I am making that chicken and dumplings recipe I found on Facebook and hoping it goes well. Nothing worse than a recipe that goes wrong!

Got home a little early. My co-worker gave me some white roses to bring home. I gave them to Gabe to give to the reception desk/receptionist at his job. They looked really pretty in a dark purple vase. I took home an orchid plant that is no longer blooming and was horribly neglected in the greenhouse and I will nurse it back to health and get it to bloom again. LOL Next week, I work Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday at the florist. Hurray. I need the hours. I just got another graphic design assignment to work on tomorrow, too.

Got home and popped laundry in the wash. I should have done that this morning! I’m hoping to get it on the line and dried before it gets dark. LOL

I got good news and bad news yesterday. Had my semi annual dr. check up. Hubs and I have been low carbing over the summer, and I had lost weight… 17 pounds! Good news: Dr. said that I am now at the perfect weight. Bad news: Cholesterol went up. Argh…

We voted today… school board election. Long line. We stood there quite a while. But the election table ladies gave us chocolate candy bars, so all is well.

Then we opened an account at a local bank that offers travel, trip advantages. It also pays a wee bit of interest. Now to find their travel site…

@forHISglory, that’s exactly what happened to me when I went on the Atkins diet…weight down, cholesterol up.

I’m a bit late today. I did some rug hooking this morning. Had a friend drop in for lunch. Another acquaintance was supposed to show but didn’t.

Started knitting some baby mitts for grandnieces that may or may not be on the way. I’m practicing technique on baby clothes. The technique in this pattern is knitting an i-cord to connect the two mitts so one doesn’t get lost.

I am thinking I ned to get designing wall hangings here, and putting them on backing. Talk to you all later…

That’s weird, I have lost 16 lbs, on the low carb for about 6 months, and my Drs are amazed my numbers dropped so low… and told me to keep doing what I am doing.,so I wonder what the difference is, My DS’s numbers have really dropped to… maybe because its not totally a low carb? we still have like 1/2 c rice, for dinner, I have been trying not to eat it because of trying to keep my blood sugar down. but I still eat my fruit… My LDL dropped 30 points.

I been having one of those weeks, whatever can go wrong has… now my big boy is up at the vets starting his insulin shots… I don’t think I could ever take blood from him, I guess it has to come from his ear… now we have to test his blood too… I think this is going to be hard… but I don’t want to lose him either. Hopefully DH can do it, hes good with things like that…

I feel like crawling in a hole somewhere and just ignoring everything… I laid in bed most of the night… just thinking about crap… now I am just beat… gripe, gripe, gripe…

Silly me. I forgot tonight is marching band evening practice. Poor Ally. She goes straight from 2 hour pom practice to 3 hour marching band practice. She’s going to just pass out when she gets home. Sending Zach with some snacks for her to possibly wolf down in between practices. I hope they don’t have a lot of homework tonight.

Miranda’s teacher emailed to say they have a slurpee run on Thursday. I think it’s great that they still have Slurpee runs in middle school. My older kids had teachers that did this sometimes, too. They time them for the end of the day and walk to 7-11 and then walk back. It’s great exercise and nice to get outside. It’s pretty warm this week, so it’s a really nice treat for them.

I have a super busy day coming up tomorrow, so may not even have time to get on here. Here’s the agenda: Going to the River early morning to get pictures. The DesMoines River flows thru our town, and it’s a large river. Well… they are draining it. That’s right. They have to clean the lock and dam system, so are draining the river in order to get down to the bottom of the mechanism. Most of the river tonight is totally land on the bottom. Only a bit remains under water, and they say that it is not very deep even there. Draining it has produced some surprises. They have found 3 cars on the bottom! Did not say whether or not any bodies/skeletons were found. The river used to be a major steamboating channel, and I had wondered if any steamboat remains might be found. Anyway, I want to get out there early and get some pictures. It’s likely that I’ll never see it like this again in my lifetime. Then I am meeting a girlfriend for lunch. Tell you what: I don’t know what I’d do without my girlfriends and getting together for lunch or coffee or whatever and just talking. It’s a much needed outlet for me! Then I have 3 customers coming in the afternoon to buy more of my online sale stuff. Then out to care for Mom for the evening. Hope you all have a great day!

Ended up on two walks today - one with a friend to walk her dogs, and another with DH to go to the DQ for ice-cream. He keep saying he wants to cut back, and then he suggests going to DQ. I think I’m going to have to put my foot down on this. I have my own ice-cream at home and I go through it 1/4 the speed he goes through his. He may not eat much real food at meals, but he sure makes up for it with sweet stuff! I’m going to have to watch that, and get him to back off a bit.

Talked to DD#1 a bit today. She has a sick cat.

Watched the last of “The Celts” with DH. It was an okay series - mini-series of six hour long shows. But honestly, knowing what little I know of British Isles history, it was very basic and somewhat repetitive.

Gave my feet a spa treatment tonight. Boy! Did that feel good! Gotta do it more often. My poor feet are quite abused.

Read more of “Lean In”. It’s a good book. Wish it had been around when I was trying to get into the work world. Back then though men were practically barbaric in their attempts to keep women from getting anywhere.